Gundam 00 x Gundam Wing

I've had this idea in my head for a while now, and now it's finally done, after 4 nights of work, about 20 hours total DX (I've never drawn so many characters in one picture...)

Anyway, characters from Gundam 00 cosplaying as characters from Gundam Wing. Because both series have many things in common, and the characters matched up pretty natually.

Well, all 'cept for Quatre. I couldn't decide who to cosplay as him, 'cause there are only 4 meisters but there are 5 GW pilots. I thought about using Halleluja, but just cannot imagine him in Quatre's clothes XD (and their personalities are waaaay too different). So then I thought about using Grahamcrackers, but Zechs is a much better match for him. So then I thought about Lasse, who piloted the GN Arms, but he's not really a main character. So I finally decided on Soma Peries, even though she's not Celestial Being (but at least she's a cool pilot ) .

At first I was gonna just do the 5 main pilots, but threw in 3 more 'cause the cosplaying matched pretty well.

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From right to left:

Tieria Erde as Chang Wufei
[Tieria pilots GN-005 Gundam Virtue, Wu = 5]

Lockon Stratos as Duo Maxwell
[Lockon pilots GN-002 Gundam Dynames, Duo = 2; Haro's there because I love Haro]

Setsuna F Seiei as Heero Yuy
[Setsuna pilots GN-001 Gundam Exia, Heero = 1, both are the main characters]

Marina Ismail as Relena Peacecraft
[both are princesses trying to keep peace. This one was kinda hard to draw since you don't see much of Marina's body. I did her hair kinda like Relena's, even though I like Relena's hair up better]

Alleluja Haptism as Trowa Barton
[Alleluja pilots GN-003 Gundam Kyrios, Trowa = 3]

Soma Peries as Quatre Raberba Winner
[GN-004 is Gundam Nadleeh, which is piloted by Tieria, so can't do the pattern for this one. Quatre's clothes are girlish enough XD]

Graham Aker as Zechs Merquise/Milliardo Peacecraft
[The masked blond ace pilot, obsessed with Gundam, and dueling with the main character, what can I say XD]

Billy Katagiri as Lucrecia Noin
[No, I'm not implying BillyxGraham >__> ... But Billy is Graham's best friend, and I thought it'd be funny to dress him up as Noin, even though her uniform is pretty neutral]

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Used a gazillion reference pics again. I have to say, the GW pilots' clothes are pretty dull in terms of colour and design ('cept for maybe Quatre's), with different shades of grey... (well, this was in 1995... XD)

Made a logo in GW logo style XD Didn't feel like drawing Gundams in the background, so it's just a random colour, green for the green in the original G00 logo.

Wacom Graphire 4, oC 4.06. I used different colours for the lineart, and a less clean colouring style (using airbrush instead of watercolour brush). Download for full-sized image if you want (to see how messy it really is XD).

characters (c) Sunrise
art by MapleRose

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